Yesterday I mentioned that I loved writing the new Mrs. Plansky novel (coming July 15 and preorderable, and publishers love preorders and writers need publishers). Commenter Linda Price had this to say:

“What factors constitute your loving writing a book? I would imagine you love writing all the C&B books, because I know you’ve said you like writing in Chet’s voice. Just a curious fan.”

Excellent question! And hard to answer! Yes, I love writing in Chet’s voice. When you’re – well, me – making up a story it sometimes takes the wheel and starts making up itself. Like I’m watching it happen as a spectator. I guess that’s what I love. And when writing in Chet’s voice it seems to happen a lot.
Different with Mrs. P. Her stories aren’t written in the first person, but in what I call third person close. Real close! I’ve done a lot of work on that. So sometimes you, the reader, know more about the character than the character does. And a bunch of other unusual effects like that. But Mrs. P is full of surprises and surprises me over and over. So thing is alive!
I hope this helps.